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C-
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0%
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The Colony (2013) |
"
The Colony isn't good, and it isn't terrible. It is, unfortunately, pretty forgettable, and for that I'm almost more disappointed than if it had been either end of the spectrum."
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Twitch
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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A-
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The Manor () |
"
Beyond the boobs and bombast, this is a family drama caught on film...The Manor is the Godfather of Jewish Strip-Club Owning Family Films"
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Twitch
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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A
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87%
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Upstream Color (2013) |
"
For me it was a great success, a success resting on both in its refusal to be overly conventional while not going completely off the rails just to say tell the audience to go fuck themselves."
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Twitch
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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A+
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92%
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Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013) |
"
[The] 3D [conversion] provides the definitive version of this classic film. Jurassic Park has been transformed with with artistry, nuance and sophistication, and it's an absolute must-see during this brief run."
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Twitch
Posted Apr 7, 2013
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F
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9%
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The Host (2013) |
"
2013's The Host is eye gouging, can't-get-the-hours-back-of-your-life kind of bad that if there's any justice will quickly disappear from your local screen, soon to be forgotten save for those masochistic few who actually stomach the entire running time. "
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Twitch
Posted Mar 30, 2013
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A-
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48%
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
Butler serves up action on a silver platter in Olympus Has Fallen! The White House runs red with blood in this Olympian battle! Finally, an entertaining film from Antoine Fuqua!"
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Twitch
Posted Mar 19, 2013
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B
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65%
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Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey (2013) |
"
Applause for its ambition in scope, which makes it far more than just a commercial for some 80s band's latest nostalgia tour."
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Twitch
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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C
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60%
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
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Twitch
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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B+
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52%
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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Bold, brash, and free from overt irony, Jack the Giant Slayer proves to be a lot of fun."
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Twitch
Posted Feb 28, 2013
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C
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16%
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A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) |
"
Anathema to a casual audience, fodder for those obsessed with the tabloid exploits of its lead, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III takes a certain fortitude or masochism to stick around for all these glances inside Charlie's mind."
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Twitch
Posted Feb 8, 2013
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A+
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83%
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
For all those that look at the films of the golden age and chide that "they don't make them that way anymore", here's a fine example that a film can be fresh, intelligent, drawing from the past while carving out its own unique and very contemporary vision"
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Twitch
Posted Feb 2, 2013
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B-
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80%
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Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
Accessible for a young teen audience, yet charming enough not to make an adult viewer want to rip their face off."
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Twitch
Posted Jan 31, 2013
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B-
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37%
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Stand Up Guys (2013) |
"
Kudos to both the ensemble and Stevens for crafting something fun and unique out of a pretty tired concept."
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Twitch
Posted Jan 31, 2013
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C+
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47%
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Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
So, turn off your brain, delve back into the days when your 12-year-old, unskeptical self would watch crap like this on a regular basis, and embrace some shlocky, beefcakey action fun with Bullet To The Head"
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Twitch
Posted Jan 31, 2013
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F
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40%
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Parker (2013) |
"
Parker's not very good. It's not worth seeing on a lark. It's probably not even worth seeing on disc. It's just a muddy mess of a thing, and the only thing that it convincingly stole was almost two hours of my life."
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Twitch
Posted Jan 24, 2013
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B+
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65%
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Mama (2013) |
"
Stylish and unflinching debut by Andrés Muschietti, complete with an unforgettable ending that's refreshingly honest and brutal...Very much a part of the canon of Guillermo del Toro."
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Twitch
Posted Jan 15, 2013
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A-
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59%
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The Last Stand (2013) |
"
A credit to Kim Ji-woon and his collaborators... With the right audience of like-minded people THE LAST STAND could well be one of the most unabashedly fun experiences you'll have at a theatre this year."
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Twitch
Posted Jan 12, 2013
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B+
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34%
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Battleship (2012) |
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We should celebrate the explicit nature, the unabashed and unapologetic chutzpah of a film that dares to be stupid, yet does so with so much intelligence."
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Twitch
Posted Jan 9, 2013
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A-
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97%
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Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012) |
"
Deftly presented, with appropriate respect for the past but a clear sense of intellectual curiosity mixed with editorial detachment, one need not fear from the warnings about Mr. Baker, as long as you duck from the swings of his cane."
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Twitch
Posted Jan 3, 2013
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A+
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94%
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
Easily among the best of [Anderson's] works, it's a technically marvelous film with spot-on performances, a gorgeously realized score, and impeccable production design."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A
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95%
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Marley (2012) |
"
Serve[s] its many audiences, doing so without succumbing to faults that so easily could have plagued the film. Well crafted, with a soundtrack that's drawn from the astounding career of its subject, MARLEY joins the pantheon of top-notch music films."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A
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100%
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Under African Skies (2012) |
"
It's a blissful film, this work by Berlinger and co., a sheer privilege for the viewer to spend such quality time UNDER AFRICAN SKIES."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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C
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48%
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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) |
"
More puzzling than it is unwatchable, squandering some really quite exceptional moments under the weight of a dreary and dull tale."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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C-
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74%
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Prometheus (2012) |
"
Prometheus, as both a response to Alien and its own attempts at philosophical and spiritual investigations, ended up filling in holes that simply were not mandatory to have filled."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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B-
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70%
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Men in Black III (2012) |
"
MIB3 is dumb, flashy fun, and if you simply ignore its obvious shortcomings you may in fact find that being back in the saddle with the boys in black remains an enjoyable, frivolous ride."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A
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98%
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Chinatown (1974) |
"
You _can't_ forget it. It's CHINATOWN."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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D-
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51%
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Savages (2012) |
"
Savages, however, finds a new low for this auteur. It's a trashy, repulsive little flick, so darned unwatchable that it's not even fun to rip the thing apart."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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F
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Love Never Dies (2012) |
"
The desire to hoodwink an audience by trading exclusively on nostalgia is certainly a temptation that will never die."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A+
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80%
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The Love We Make (2011) |
"
By capturing this unique moment in time, by tying Paul's own trepidation with that of the city, and by highlighting the remarkable events that led up to the show, The Love We Make proves to transcend any expectations..."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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B-
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86%
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
Without TREMÉ, BEASTS would not have worked for me, and compared to TREMÉ, BEASTS is little more than a slight, forgettable diversion."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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B+
|
89%
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Compliance (2012) |
"
Taut, edgy, at times almost farcical yet remaining incredibly powerful, this is a small scope film big on execution."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A+
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100%
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Jaws (1975) |
"
Jaws remains, decades later, a near perfect film."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A
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95%
|
The War Room (1993) |
"
It's a testament to the supreme skills of Hegedus and Pennebaker that they managed to craft a film that so easily could have gone astray. "
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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B-
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64%
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Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
One of those lovely, nomination-gleaning period pieces that some simply adore. It's got a playful and unique style to it that transcends the charge of it being yet another costume drama."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A+
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93%
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Looper (2012) |
"
Accessible to a general audience while still having moments that will warm any film geek's heart, this is the kind of genre film that elevates the form. "
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A-
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86%
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The Master (2012) |
"
THE MASTER is a brilliant film. THE MASTER is a confounding film. The Master is a terrible film. THE MASTER may talked about for the ages or forgotten in a few years. THE MASTER may be a masterpiece, THE MASTER may be empty of content..."
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Filmfest
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A-
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86%
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The Master (2012) |
"
THE MASTER is brilliant and/or confounding and/or terrible. It may be talked about for the ages or forgotten in a few years. It may be a masterpiece, and/or it may be empty of content masked by strong moments of acting prowess and visual flare."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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B-
|
68%
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Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
Might as well embrace the timeline where, in fact, films of this ambition are still being made, still being presented to that audience quite desperate for respite from a slew of remakes, sequels, re-imaginings and the like."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A
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90%
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Bad 25 (2012) |
"
Even if you stubbornly refuse to get down with the heavy, heavy grooves on this recording, you may in fact find a new appreciation for both the record itself and the musician behind the headlines."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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B-
|
50%
|
Aftershock (2013) |
"
Certain to generate a slew of lesser imitators, Aftershock manages to shake free from expectations of banality, creating an extremely effective, unsettling experience. "
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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B-
|
39%
|
The ABCs of Death (2013) |
"
I'm a big fan of giving artists certain "obstructions" (to borrow from Von Trier) and see what they can come up with, yet the results of this particular experiment are mixed at best."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A
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76%
|
The Bay (2012) |
"
Levinson's film proves something pretty unequivocally - any conceit, any style, be it found footage or shakycam or haunted house or whatever, can be great in the hands of a good filmmaker. "
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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B+
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The Artifact (2007) |
"
Artifact remains an interesting film, asking a number of important questions about the commerce of art, and does so in an engaging way. "
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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B-
|
96%
|
Blancanieves (2013) |
"
Blancanieves is a beautifully crafted, if not entirely successful throwback to a golden age of filmmaking from nearly a century ago, a lovely excursion back to a previous era. "
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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B
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Ghost Graduation (Promoción Fantasma) () |
"
From stupid jokes to laugh-out-loud moments, Ghost Graduation provides a terrifically fun time, a supernatural romantic retro comedy that more than lives up to the films of the 80s that inspired it."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A-
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86%
|
London: The Modern Babylon () |
"
Temple's fragmented approach bespeaks the very nature of the place he's celebrating. For it seems that only through these wide variety of elements, these individual building blocks making a whole, that we can really get a sense of this remarkable city."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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B+
|
67%
|
Lunarcy! (2013) |
"
Lunarcy! is one of those delightful character piece documentaries, akin to where Errol Morris will go down to some swampy Florida town and meet totally unique, bizarre and obsessive individuals and put them on screen for our edification."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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A+
|
100%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
One of this decade's most important and most harrowing documentaries, The Act of Killing is a shattering take on the nature of evil."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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B-
|
93%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
When all is said and done, Avengers is all sound and Nick Fury, signifying nothing."
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Twitch
Posted Dec 28, 2012
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